Enjoy the benefits of a premium membership!
Upgrade Account
-
TalkBass has been independent since 1998. Add your voice.
Create a free account to reply to discussions, view embedded media, and browse with fewer display ads.
Join free Log in
Want zero display ads or expanded classifieds tools? Compare plans.
What did you learn today?
- Thread starter PWRL
- Start date
I have a feeling some of us surfed around to find the same "professional league" cornhole tournament on TV yesterday. This was news to me. I couldn't stop laughing at the deadly seriousness with which it was all being presented. Then I read the same wikipedia article linked earlier, and was amazed to find there were three different competing leagues.
Why can't we do that here? (somewhat of a rhetorical question, really).
Today I learned the song Rumble by Link Ray on guitar at the request of my wife. I don't know how to play guitar well so I cheated and opened tuned it to D and learned it in about a half hour. Fun song...fun song.
Just how long it takes for the wound to close are removing an ingrown toenail.
600,000 passengers with "no emissions," huh?
Ride that train for half an hour and then say that.
^ Loco motion
Haven't you herd? (World's just gone wack here. Walls are closing in
) … Better.get.a.wriggle.on. boys and girls. Herd it through the grapevine "
… In June 2020, a multi-disciplinary team was formed to review and collect online rumors and conspiracy theories between 31 December 2019–30 November 2020. Sources included Google, Google Fact Check, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, fact-checking agency websites, and television and newspaper websites. …
… [Of] 637 COVID-19 vaccine-related items: 91% were rumors and 9% were conspiracy theories from 52 countries. Of the 578 rumors, 36% were related to vaccine development, availability, and access, 20% related to morbidity and mortality, 8% to safety, efficacy, and acceptance, and the rest were other categories. Of the 637 items, 5% (30/) were true, 83% (528/637) were false, 10% (66/637) were misleading, and 2% (13/637) were exaggerated. …
Herd immunity against misinformation and conspiracy theories is required to ensure herd immunity against SARS-CoV-2; the virus causing COVID-19 … . It is estimated that the vaccine coverage needs to be approximately 55% to 88% in order to achieve herd immunity against SARS-CoV-2 … . …
The surveillance identified 637 rumors and conspiracy theories related to COVID-19 vaccine in 24 languages from 52 countries (Fig 1). Of the total, 91% (578/637) were classified as rumors and 9% (59/637) as conspiracy theories. These items included news articles, social media narratives, online reports and/or blogs that approximately 103.3 million people had liked, shared, reacted to with an emoji, or retweeted on social media. Of all the items, 15% (94/637) were reported in the United States, 13% (82/637) in India, and 12% (77/637) in Brazil. The African continent reported the least (Fig 2). Facebook was the most prevalent (61%) media, followed by Twitter (28.6%) (Fig 3).
COVID-19 vaccine rumors and conspiracy theories: The need for cognitive inoculation against misinformation to improve vaccine adherence
"
…
l
l.
If they could just harness and convert those "emissions," they might not need the other "wind" energy!600,000 passengers with "no emissions," huh?
Ride that train for half an hour and then say that.
When you come to a fork in the road, before you do anything, sanitize the living daylights out of it. And keep an ear to the ground — The Road Ahead.
Today I learned (well, a doctor confirmed it at least
) that I cannot, in fact, win a pushing contest with a 3-ton container of freight that got wedged into a cargo hold without sustaining an injury.
One busted shoulder later, I'm off work for at least a week, and chewing happily on some painkillers.
) that I cannot, in fact, win a pushing contest with a 3-ton container of freight that got wedged into a cargo hold without sustaining an injury.One busted shoulder later, I'm off work for at least a week, and chewing happily on some painkillers.
